Tidbit for November 1, 1999:
The Weather Year Ahead for New England
Now that we've set the clocks back and the days are growing shorter, it's with reluctance that I start to accept the fact that winter is around the corner. So, of course, one of the first things I turned to in The Old Farmer's Almanac was the New England forecast summary for the impending winter and the year ahead. You can read the entire summary online at Almanac.com, or, here are the highlights:
November and December will have
some cold weather, but most of the season will be relatively mild (yippee!).
We'll see record low temperatures
late in January.
Big snowstorms are forecast for
mid-December and early February.
There'll be above-normal
temperatures and below-normal rainfall in April and May of 2000, setting the stage for
drought conditions by midsummer.
It will be extraordinarily hot and
dry from June through early August with record-setting temperatures in the 100s in late
July in some New England spots.
A hurricane will hit New England in
mid-August, and heavy rains throughout the rest of that month will have us New Englanders
changing our worries from drought to flooding.
There'll be a last hurrah heat wave
in mid-September, and October of 2000 will be mild but wet.
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